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Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days (5th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)

Authors: Rogers Cadenhead, Laura Lemay
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 37805

Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 1.7

ISBN: 0672329433
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780672329432
ASIN: 0672329433

Publication Date: June 4, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description

“If you get only one Java book, it should be Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days” –PC Magazine

In just 21 days, you can acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to develop three kinds of programs with Java: applications on your computer, servlets on a web server, and browser-launched Java Web Start applications.

No previous programming experience required. By following the 21 carefully organized lessons in this book, anyone can learn the basics of Java programming.

Learn at your own pace. You can work through each chapter sequentially to make sure you thoroughly understand all of the concepts and methodologies, or you can focus on specific lessons to learn the techniques that interest you most.

Test your knowledge. Each chapter ends with a Workshop section filled with questions, answers, and exercises for further study. There are even certification practice questions.

“Sams Teach Yourself Java is one of the best introductions to hands-on Java programming. If you buy one book on Java, this is the one to buy!” –Independent Web Review

Completely revised, updated, and expanded to cover the latest features of Java 6
Learn to develop standalone Java applications, web servlets, JavaServer Pages, and Java Web Start applications
Easy-to-understand, practical examples clearly illustrate the fundamentals of Java programming
Discover how Swing can help you quickly develop programs with a graphical user interface
Find out about JDBC database programming, Internet client/server programming, and XML parsing with the open source XOM class library
Covers new features of version 6 such as Java DB, the new relational database that is now a built-in
part of Java

Rogers Cadenhead is a web application developer who has written 22 books on Internet-related topics, including Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours. He maintains this book’s official website at http://www.java21days.com.

Laura Lemay is one of the world’s most popular authors on Web development topics. She is the author of the bestselling Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML, as well as Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days.

CD-ROM includes:

Source code for the examples developed in the book
Java? SE Development Kit 6
NetBeans? IDE 5.5
Bonus materials

Category: Java Programming

Covers: Java 6 Platform Standard Edition

User Level: Beginning?Intermediate

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Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Java at your pace August 7, 2008
Likes:
A co-worker recommended the book to me and let me borrow it briefly. I found I liked the pacing in the book and the attempt by the authors to modularize each of the chapters making them correspond to days in a week. Due to other "life" distractions I found myself not necessarily able to keep up with the Java in 21 days but I still found it easier to progress through this book as opposed to other similar "[Insert language, application, software, etc., here] in X number of days" books. The examples are good and the authors get the book text to correspond well with the examples. I felt I understood the general concept of what the authors were trying to convey and I enjoyed working through the examples and exercises at my own pace. I felt that the modular chapters of the book would allow me to read through the chapters in most any sequence with the same ease as reading from beginning to end.

I found the website more convenient to use than the CD and the author seems to keep the book's online portion fairly current.

Dislikes:
The installation of Java instructions in Appendix A are aimed more at Windows and UNIX users but little or no mention is given to Mac OS X users. I would have preferred some assistance with upgrading Java on the Mac with help from the book or CD. I managed to get by however with Java 5 in Mac OS X. Some Mac users not familiar with installing/updating Java may encounter difficulty if they rely on the book and/or CD alone, particularly the CLASSPATH used in Mac OS X.

There are a couple of typos and errors that need to be fixed (i.e., for some odd reason the references in the book to signed/unsigned data-types are incorrect).

Overall:
I'm still going through the book and the things I like about the book, CD and website outweigh what I dislike about each of these items. Despite my dislikes I felt the book deserved 4 out of 5 starts (well 3.5 out of 5 but I can't give half a star).

1 out of 5 stars

This does NOT cover java 6 July 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I am a certified programmer for java 1.4, and I bought this book on the title alone to get me up to date with the upgrades to version 6. What a disappointment to find that annotations are not covered at all, and generics only partially. Furthermore the collections framework is largely ignored. I looks like a java 1.3 book with some added examples to make it look like a version 6 book, but it is NOT. So if you need a book to study for the certification exam, this book is definitely NOT the one to get.
I found it a complete waste of money.

3 out of 5 stars

OK intro book July 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The book does a pretty good job introducing the fundamentals of Java. It took me about 4 days to go through it. It's not very good as a reference, but then again there are the Java docs at Sun which are comprehensive.

5 out of 5 stars

Almost perfect!! June 18, 2008
Great book, i was migrating from DBXL (dont laugh) to Java 6 and this was the first book i read. The structure is sometimes out of whack and i found myself reading chapters out of order on 2 occasions but asside from this i found it to be an EXCELLENT way to upgrade my knowledge!

5 out of 5 stars

Java 6 April 17, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is a good, quick introduction or review of Java. Also good as a reference.